Despite losing market share over the past year, Canon and Olympus still have the largest market share in the Japanese domestic camera market. Canon sees an increased DSLR market share while Olympus remains the top mirrorless system camera manufacturer.

LG Electronics hopes to sell about 75 million phones this year, of which 45 million will be smartphones and the other 30 million will be feature phones. The company is also developing smartphones that are running on Windows Phone 8.

Facebook has just launched a free VoIP call service via their Messenger app for iPhones. This feature is limited to U.S. iPhones for now, with no further information on when this feature will appear for users beyond U.S.

Jeffries analyst Peter Misek recently released a report indicating that Apple will be launching the iPhone 5S in June or July, with production slated to begin in March. He also shared his insights on the more affordable iPhone as well as the recent reports of "weaker-than-expected demand" for the iPhone 5.

At CES 2013, Tactus Technology demonstrated a tablet whose touchscreen can morph into real physical buttons that rise up out of the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, leaving a perfectly flat, transparent surface when gone.